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Can't do it at all. About 70% of the people we interview fall into this bucket. Another 10% can't do it cleanly. The rest get to continue past the first five m
by borski 10y ago
Can't do it at all. About 70% of the people we interview fall into this bucket. Another 10% can't do it cleanly.
The rest get to continue past the first five minutes.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoIs it possible that they're both unfamiliar with the language/environment? I doubt I could write a working fizzbuzz in go, and it's been so long since I've written C that I'm genuinely not sure if I remember how to write a working program.
- PakG1 10y agoThen get them to write it in pseudocode? Would interviewers disallow that?
- pavel_lishin 10y agoThat's what I've always been asked to do, and what I always ask to do. I don't want someone stumbling over "is it toLowerCase() or toLower()?" while they're thinking.
- sndean 10y agoJust to clarify, since I've never done a programming interview: 70% of people can't do fizzbuzz during the interview?
- jwatte 10y agoCorrect. For our coding screen, we use coderpad.io, which lets you chose whatever language you want. Go try it out yourself!
- nercht12 10y agoI've read that same stat elsewhere, so thanks for the confirmation. Maybe these people are nervous? Sometimes your mind goes blank when you go into an interview, so I'm interested in knowing how far they actually get when solving the challenge.
- prawn 10y agoPresumably in their preferred language, or with acceptable pseudocode? I find that baffling, and I am self-taught and a very mediocre programmer. I'd barely even call myself a programmer as I've historically spent more time designing. I can't think of how they might be stumped by it? Is it true even of programmers with experience/age on their side, likely to have encountered loads of real world challenges? I've gone back to read about it a couple of times since first hearing of it - swear I must be missing something?